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  • B. F. Skinner Properly used, positive reinforcement is extremely powerful.
    B. F. Skinner
    American psychologist, behaviorist and author (1904 - 1990)
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  • Ezra Pound Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.
    Ezra Pound
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
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  • Arthur Rimbaud Romanticism has never been properly judged. Who was there to judge it? The critics!
    Arthur Rimbaud
    French poet (1854 - 1891)
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  • Anna Lindh That was for instance the case in Mocambique a couple of years ago, during the flooding catastrophe. Instead of co-ordinating assistance properly, to much time and resources was spent on fighting about the same helicopters and local guides.
    Anna Lindh
    Swedish Social Democratic politician (1957 - 2003)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli The best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends, more than anything else, the improvement of mankind.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Hubert Humphrey The difference between heresy and prophecy is often one of sequence. Heresy often turns out to have been prophecy - when properly aged.
    Hubert Humphrey
    American politician (1911 - 1978)
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  • Frederic Raphael The great networks are there to prove that ideas can be canned like spaghetti. If everything ends up by tasting like everything else, is that not the evidence that it has been properly cooked?
    Frederic Raphael
    American screenwriter, biographer and writer (1931 - )
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  • Henri-Frédéric Amiel The only substance properly so called is the soul.
    Henri-Frédéric Amiel
    Swiss philosopher and poet (1821 - 1881)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton The perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in any of them.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson There is properly no history; only biography.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Louis Ferdinand Céline There's a point of poverty at which the spirit isn't with the body all the time. It finds the body really too unbearable. So it's almost as if you were talking to the soul itself. And a soul's not properly responsible.
    Louis Ferdinand Céline
    French writer (1894 - 1961)
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  • Bernard Pivot This programme would only really make sense and work properly if it was also broadcast on France's international television channel TV5. So I ended up with a double production, on France 2 and TV5.
    Bernard Pivot
    French journalist and interviewer (1935 - )
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  • Anna Lindh To properly reflect the changes of the world and of the UN, with its growing number of member states, we would like to see an enlargement of the SC that gives room for new members, not least developing countries.
    Anna Lindh
    Swedish Social Democratic politician (1957 - 2003)
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  • Bob Woodward Using these unnamed sources, if done properly, carefully and fairly, provides more accountability in government.
    Bob Woodward
    American investigative journalist (1943 - )
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  • Richard Marcinko We all knew there was just one way to improve our odds for survival: train, train, train. Sometimes, if your training is properly intense it will kill you. More often - much, much more often - it will save your life.
    Richard Marcinko
    American Navy officer and Vietnam War veteran (1940 - )
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  • Alain de Botton We are properly ready for marriage when we are strong enough to embrace a life of frustration.
    Alain de Botton
    Swiss-born British author (1969 - )
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  • Anthony Holden We could have a political movement going if it had been properly organized but the Monarchy's done itself enormous damage possibly beyond the point of long-term recovery.
    Anthony Holden
    English writer, broadcaster and critic
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  • Alain de Botton We don't really learn anything properly until there is a problem, until we are in pain, until something fails to go as we had hoped ... We suffer, therefore we think.
    How Proust Can Change Your Life
    Alain de Botton
    Swiss-born British author (1969 - )
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  • Ahmet Necdet Sezner We shouldn't waste any more time in making sure that democracy is properly rooted in our political life and the supremacy of the law becomes an integral part of our state's structure.
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  • Bono When a nation is over-reliant on one or two commodities like oil or precious minerals, corrupt government ministers and their dodgy associates hoard profits and taxes instead of properly allocating them to schools and hospitals.
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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